Category: Barges and wherries

Barges and wherries and other working boats originally for carrying cargoes

Another print of a Humber Keel ‘The Port of Hull’

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Port of Hull

The Port of Hull , by W Wylie, 1882

My pal Jim van den Bos grew up near the Humber Estuary, as I did, and very much enjoyed the engraving of a Humber keel that I put up a few days ago. In fact, he enjoyed it so much that he was inspired to mail me a scan of another engraving of a keel by W Wylie, dated 1882 – so here it is. Again, it’s a nice big scan and it should be possible create a print-out good enough to hang on your wall.

Thanks Jim!

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A handsome Humber keel

Humber Keel engraving

Humber Keel engraving

This is one you could hang on a wall – and I hope some of you will.

I recently found this lovely engraving of a Humber keel in a very old book, and I’ve made the downloadable file extra-large to try to make sure it will print out nicely. Perhaps some of you will find a suitable spot for it.

For more posts relating to the Humber and its vessels:
Dove
More of Roger Davies classic marine paintings
A barge with a Viking-style square sail

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A fabulous day with the craftsman boatbuilders at Beale Park

Beale Park Thames Boat Show

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Early morning at Beale Park; a Wharram catamaran; Joan Jardine-Brown with a boat she designed when she was just 19; a classic Thames skiff

We’ve had a great, if tiring day today with the professional and amateur boatbuilders and boat clubs at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show. As always it was quite an event, with boatbuilders finding spare moments to socialise between visitors, and the clubs devoted to particular types of boats enjoying their own extended picnics, while the general public oohed-and-aahed over the boats themselves. We oohed and aahed quite a lot ourselves, and I discovered later that I had taken 480 photographs, and my partner Julie took a fist-full of good shots too – that’s one of hers at the top of this post.

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